Valerie Bertinelli: Shake yourself. You’re embarrassing everyone

Eddie Van Halen’s ex-wife is the latest celebrity to jump the shark with her life. She’s now at the point — Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, David Hasselhoff are already there — where she will sell her soul for fame.

She will degrade herself in any way imaginable. She will speak at length about her own bowel movements (or the bowel movements of others) if there’s a camera nearby.

It’s okay that she’s earning a buck as the new national spokeswoman for Jenny Craig weight loss. No problem there. But she’s using that as a blunt object with which to force her way back into the spotlight, and she’ll do anything else to get the job done.

Want an example?

She’s appearing on Larry King Live on CNN tonight, and here’s the tout for it:

Valerie Bertinelli tells Larry King about drugs, infidelity and kissing a woman. Watch full interview tonight at 9:00 pm.

Sen. John McCain apologized today for remarks made by a right wing shock jock at a rally in Cincinnati. The loon in question hit the usual wingnut talking points: Obama, Muslim, terrorism, etc. This material was thin to start with it, and it’s going to be threadbare come November.

The online auction house raised some fees, ticked off some sellers and the sellers responded with an e-protest, yanking their items off the site for a few days. The result: A drop in sales and that’s about it. eBay, it seems, doesn’t care.